Hayatullah ansari biography examples
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Hayatullah Ansari was born at firangi Mahal, Lucknow. His father was Waheedullah Ansari. He was initially educated through the reknowned Madarassa itself and earned the degree of “uloom-e- shiqiya” from this institution. After schooling he joined the Aligarh Muslim University where he came in contact with the leftist and progressive writers. He was influenced by them and this is reflected in his short stories which reflect his socialist bent of mind. After his return to Lucknow he came into contact with Gandhian philosophy and also served a term at the “Sevagram” Gandhi’s Ashram.
He is accepted as a reputable short story writer of Urdu. His first short story was published in the june 1930 issue of the ‘Jamia’. Nine years later his first collection of short stories called ‘Anokhi Musibat’ was published in 1939. After a gap of 7 years, two collections of short stories followed in quick succession. “Bhare Bazar mein” in 1946 and “Shikasta Kagure” in 1947. About his art as a short story writer, Ali Jawad Zaidi says “his stories develop with a natural ease and give lively portrayals of human suffering and aspiration. Some stories excel in the psychoanalytical technique. ‘Aakhri Koshish’ is easily the most acclaimed of his short stories.
Besides being a short story writer , he was
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Remembering the Pen that Scripted a More Humane World
Mumbai: Khwaja Ahmad Abbas was a journalist and writer, activist and filmmaker, scenarist, scriptwriter, thinker, and philosopher all rolled into one, a man whose pen inked not merely words but rather a vision of human awakening. Last week saw the release of a book celebrating the life and work of a man who eluded all labels, a book fittingly as eclectic as the subject himself. Published by the Khwaja Ahmad Abbas Memorial Trust (KAAMT) in association with Tulika Books, Bread Beauty Revolution — Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (1914-1987), is edited by filmmaker Iffat Fatima and chairperson of KAAMT, Syeda Saiyidain Hameed. Together they have attempted to capture the spirit of a ‘committed social reformer’, whose sole mission in life was to communicate his unstinting ideal of a more humane world.
Abbas Sahab, as he was fondly called, played several roles in his life. Yet, he was refreshingly self-deprecating of his own abilities. At the book launch, actress Shabana Azmi, who fondly refered to him as Abbas Chacha, chose to read an excerpt from the book which clearly showed this side of him: “Maybe I’m a non-writer, an unredeemed journalist and columnist masquerading as a writer of fiction.”
If anything, the truth would seem